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- NAME: Jeff Bezos
- OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
- BIRTH DATE: January 12, 1964 (Age: 49)
- EDUCATION: Princeton University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Full Name: Jeffrey Preston Bezos
- ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn
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American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com. An e-commerce pioneer, Bezos was instrumental in creating a model for buying and selling products online.
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Business whiz Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in the garage of his rented house with start-up money he borrowed from his parents.
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While many dot.coms of the early ‘90s went bust, Amazon flourished with yearly sales that jumped from $510,000 in 1995 to over $17 billion in 2011.
In 2007, Amazon.com released the Kindle, a handheld digital book reader that allows users to buy, download, read and store their book selections. That same year, Bezos also set his sights far, far, away, announcing his investment in Blue Origin,
a Seattle-based aerospace company that is developing technologies to offer space travel to paying customers.
Bezos then moved Amazon into the tablet marketplace with the unveiling of the Kindle Fire in 2011. The following September, he announced the new Kindle Fire HD, the company's next generation tablet designed to give Apple's iPad a run for its money. "We haven't built the best tablet at a certain price. We have built the best tablet at any price," Bezos said, according to ABC News.
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